Two joeys that survived a mass killing of kangaroos on the Far South Coast last year have been successfully released into the wild.
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Not only did they manage to live through the massacre, they also survived when the property they were recovering on was hit in summer's bushfires.
Twenty-one eastern grey kangaroos were killed in a late-night rampage at Tura Beach last September, an incident that was met with shock and outrage by the local community.
Two of the surviving joeys, called Nullah and Chance, were cared for by Wildlife Rescue South Coast macropod coordinator Lucille, who preferred to go by her first name only, at her property outside Bemboka.
Lucille described them as "really good kids", but they had to endure another ordeal last summer when fire approached the property from three different directions and moved too fast for her to evacuate.
"There was no warning, there was smoke behind the mountain range, then suddenly everything was on fire - and it's not easy to evacuate anywhere with seven kangaroos," she said.
The animals were moved into the house, but the next day her property caught on fire and she evacuated with them.
"I was lucky, my fear was the released kangaroos being burnt, but none had any injuries whatsoever as they must have had enough intelligence to get out of the area," she said.
"Eight houses on my road and the next road were lost, so I feel extremely fortunate I still have a home."
While her house survived her property was burnt including the kangaroo enclosure, although the fire at it was extinguished before it caused too much damage.
Earlier this month Nullah and Chance joined a mob of released kangaroos on Lucille's property that intermingle with wild kangaroos, and on Friday she said both were healthy and doing very well.
"They were my favourites, because they'd gone through so much," she said.
The regional coordinator for the Far South Coast in WRSC, Danie Ondinea, described Lucille as a "wonderful carer", and said she had not heard of an incident of "intentional cruelty" on the scale of Tura Beach's occurring in the region before.
"To me, it was a really big event and I imagine the community in Tura Beach are still feeling distress from that terrible event," she said.
"I hope knowing Chance and Nullah have been cared for and released with other kangaroos will help the local people with that distress."
Lucille said there was another surviving joey of the massacre that had been cared for by WIRES.
Nathan Sanger and Ashley Sorenson both pleaded guilty to a charge of torture, beat and cause death of animal over their roles in the Tura Beach killings.
Thirty-four-year-old Sorenson, whose address was in Tura at the time of the incident, was jailed for 12 months and Sanger, a then 20-year-old from Numbugga, received a two-year intensive corrections order and was ordered to serve 500 hours of community service.